Republicans get control and they’re going to push through every voter suppression law {...} , every congressional district reconfiguration...

Comparing the hoodline to the bottom of the moose fuselage is especially instructive. You take those long spindly legs out from under it and the massive moose fuselage comes into the cabin.

(and yes, I know that four and twenty means 24, not 420, but work with me, it’s a good pun).

Might be a good place to stick a rearview camera display, though, or even some more modern nav, if you don’t want to open Pandora’s toolbox on the dash and its factory stereo.

If you’re thinking committing insurance fraud on a Mercedes is pretty low stakes for a guy who owned a multi-million-dollar yacht, you’re not alone.

If you ever need some of your garage back for a while, I’d be willing to, ah, store that for you!

Indeed; those who recall this car as the rumors leaked and then it burst onto the scene remember it as a revisitation of the general idea of the big-block/fat-fender Cobra, right down to the name.

I eventually went a different direction and got a 63 Cadillac deVille convertible

I’m not sure any states would insist on smogging a ‘74 (even California, though their intended rolling grandfather clause didn’t roll very far, no longer cares about a ‘75 or older vehicle), and it never did have a catalytic converter, so you should be at quite a bit of liberty to do what you want or need to do…

These have a following (and I don’t just mean “in no-passing zones on long upgrades”) and it looks like a quite decent example, though priced at more than I’m paying. However, speaking of upgrades, I think a ‘74 slightly predates some chassis reinforcements for this sort of duty, and even after that, they were kinda…

A classic beauty whose price soared out of my league, or at least beyond my entertainment budget, during the years I spent looking and drooling instead of investing and restoring. He isn’t exactly giving it away, but still NP if it looks as good in-person to knowledgeable eyes and  runs as good as it looks.

While you’re deciding, I’ll sneak into the motor pool and see if the XJ220 is available to be checked out.  

It was also pretty expensive (its MSRP was crowding $70k in today’s dollars), and although more or less dailyable, had an image that screamed impracticality. I think of it as competing in the Big Boys Toys market more than the car market.  Some stumbles in the economy toward the end of its run sure didn’t help.

One of the large obnoxious pop-up ads that infest this site these days offered to sell me something that reduces crying and spit-up, so I guess wagons still have a certain stereotypical use case.

Yeah, GM headquarters couldn’t decide whether Saturn was a beacon of what to do right or a galling reminder of what they’d been doing wrong, and I guess the latter carried the day...

>Just don’t buy one of these if the purchase price is your entire wad of cash.

It needed most of the front end and steering rebuilt before 124k? {takes sad last look at yacht-club-ready interior color scheme and walks away}

so many people are ok with prisoners dying in horrible conditions, as long as they’re the type of criminal that we don’t like.

I recently bought gasoline in California and have a strong hunch that if something capable of such high mpg were anywhere near being smoggable and roadworthy, they’d have kept it.

Well... I believe there is some evidence that getting hit in the torso and head, as by a pickup or SUV, is worse than getting your legs takes out from under you by an ordinary sedan and sliding up the hood.